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13enucr 3teUs t Pa. Mag, 1903. 



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CRE A TIOJV. 



Asia, the cradle of the human race. 

Adam, 930 years. 

Methusaleh, 969 years. 

Noah, 600 years. 

Shem, Ham, Japeth, Flood, 1656. The first man born after the 
flood, Arphaxad. 

Abraham, 175 years. 

Tigris River. Garden of Eden. Euphrates River. Babylon. 
Belshazzers, and Cyrus. God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam. 
For two thousand years whole earth was of one tongue. 

Methusaleh lived before the flood; reached one hand back to Adam 
and the other hand gave it to Noah; then Noah, living upon both sides 
of the flood, hands it down to Abraham. Next comes the monuments 
of Egypt AAA, the Sphinx, the eternally insolvabk riddle of the 
world. Nimrod, the first man to wear a crown. Mena, the first 
recorded Egyptian king. Moses. The Ten Commandments, the 
alphabet, author of Genesis, inventor of letters. 

Boaz, Ruth, Samuel, Saul, David, Solomon. Elijah, the great 
restorer of law when it lay buried in ruins and covered with 
corruption. 

From the time of the Israelites into Canaan and the birth of our 
Saviour a period of 145 1 years elapsed. After the death of Joshua, 
the Israelites were governed by Judges; it was a nation of farmers; very 



few servants, except hewers of wood and drawers of water. The 
period when each man was content to sit under his vine and under his 
fig tree. The practice of soothsaying or fortune telling was common 
among the Jews. Saul drove all who practiced it from the land. The 
Psalms of David and the writings of Solomon possess extraordinary- 
merit. They carry forward the minds of the faithful beyond the 
present to the future. The shades of a dark night had to pass before 
the day should break. There can be no doubt that haste and riches 
brought all the evils and sin which always flow from it in an age of 
progress towards worldly show and magnificence. Job gave us 
astronomy; many of the stars and constellations received well-known 
names. He stretchetd out the north over empty place and hangeth the 
world upon nothing. His was knowledge and simple worship of the 
one true God. 

The first marriage — Isaac went out, and lifting up his eyes, behold, 
the camels are coming! Rebecca and her maidens for a new home. 
All aboard! Haul in the plank, and swing out into the sea darkness 
and storm. "Go 'way, Jezebel!" The circle is an emblem of eternity, 
and that is the shape of the marriage ring. 

The king of Chaldea made a raid on the cities of Canaan and car- 
ried off Lot. This is the first battle recorded in history, 1400 B. C. 

Greece and the Greek poets, 900 B. C, iEsops fables. 

Carthage sprung a colony of Tyre, 880 B. C. Jezebel, one of its 
natives, who tried to force on the Israelites the worship of Baal, 860 
B. C. Jonah, 530 B. C. Darius, king of Media, 530 B. C. Cyrus, 
king of Persia, 530 B. C. Daniel, Belshazzar, king of Babylon, 323 
B. C. Alexander, king of Macedonia, 182 B. C. Hannibal, king of 
Carthage, never at peace with Rome. 

China — Confucius gave instructions unto those who cannot procure 
it for themselves. 



Phoenicia, the market place for industry of all nations, Armenia 
sends horses, Arabia sends horns and ivory, Cassia calamus, lambs and 
goats; Syria, precious stones, fine linen; Israel, honey, oil and the balm 
of Gilead; Damascus, wine, wool; Queen of Sheba, spices, precious 
stones and gold; Assyria, cedar boxes, blue cloth. Thy riches, thy 
merchandise, thy mariners and thy pilots, and all thy men-of-war that 
are in thee shall fall into the midst of the sea in the days of thy ruin. 

May I ask when, and where, was the first trial by jury and how 
was it conducted ? 

Asa was diseased in his feet, yet he sought not the Lord, but the 
physician, and Asa slept with his fathers, 752 B. C, Rome. 

45 B. C. Mark Antony and Cleopatra, 

44 B. C. Caesar was murdered in a meeting of the Senate, and 
fell at the feet of the statue of Pompius, pierced sixteen times, only one 
of which was fatal. This was in Rome. 25 B. C. Herod. 

Judea. Leviticus xix : 18, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyself." 

Samaria, Ahab, Jezebel, Naboth and Elijah. 



How pleasant to me thy deep blue wave, 

O, Sea of Galilee; 
For the glorious One, who came to save, 

Hath often stood by thee. 

cwrist. 

Mediterranean Sea. 

The three wise men from Assyria: Casper, a young man; Balth- 
azar, mid life; Melchoir, an octogenarian. The three great councilors 
of the Jews' "Sanhedrin," Shammai, Hielel and Betirah. John, the 
Baptist. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the 
world. Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. St. Peter, 
SL Paul, the Rose of Sharon, Mary Magdalene, Rock of Ages, Star of 
Bethlehem. 

I. H. S. Jesus, the Saviour of men. "O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
thou that killeth the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto 
thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a bird 
gathers her brood under her wings, and ye would not." And at another 
time, when He says, "the day shall come upon thee that thine enemies 
shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round and keep thee 
in on every side, and shall not leave in thee one stone upon another." 
Thirty-seven years later the Romans captured the city; the Jews 
perished. Homeless ever since, scattered among the cities of earth to 
be the Shy locks of a day that is gone by, and the Rothschilds of our 
own happier age. 

The three worst men of the world: Brutus and Cassius, who 
betrayed their sovereign and their country, and Judas Iscariot, who 
betrayed his master with a kiss. 

The first performer on the harp and organ, Jubal. Gen. 4, 21. 

The first instructor in brass and iron, Tubalcain. Gen. 4, 22. 



Nowhere is Rome less known than in Rome itself. 

64 A. D. Nero's reign. Set fire to the city out of mere wicked 
sport, and sat calmly looking on and singing verses on the burning of 
Troy to the music of his harp. 

95 A. D. Domitian banished St. John, the evangelist, to the Isle 
of Patmos; from here the book of Revelation. 

167 A. D. Persecution of the Christians. 

330 A. D. Constantine the Great wore a mask to serve the aims 
of an unresting and unscrupulous ambition. 

Marcus Aurelius, Bishop of Potycarp: "Thank God I am worthy 
to drink of the cup of Christ. 

432 A. D. The invasion of Britain by three tribes They found 
a population of Celts, "Irish people," famous as poets, and harpers, 
Blarney stone, wit, first flowers of the earth and first gem of the sea. 

Scotland, high-toned piety. 

476 A. D. "When Odoacer was proclaimed king of Italy, the 
Assembly, which called itself the Roman Senate, sent back to Constan- 
tinople the tiara and purple robe in sign that the Western Empire had 
passed away." 

432 A. D. Patrick, a Scotchman, began to preach the gospel in 
Ireland. 

503 A. D. As if to repay the blessing, an Irishman, Columbia, 
passed into Scotland on the same sacred mission. 



590 A. D. Pope Gregory the Great, founder of papacy, being 
struck with the beauty of some English boys in the Roman slave 
market, was the first to send missions to the world. 

987 A. D. France, once called Franks, has nothing in the history 
of kings branded with nicknames, such as the stammerer, the fat, the 
foolish, the lazy, to challenge notice or respect. A new dynasty 
arose. Hugh Capet changed the name from Franks to France, and a 
new history begins. 

1096 A. D. Crusades to 1272 A. D. The Troubadours perished 
forever. Tennyson tells us of that noble old music. One of the 
strangest sights of the middle ages was the boy crusade of 12 12, 
Stephen of Vendome. 

1482 A. D. Expulsion of the Moors from Spain. Abdallah, on a 
rocky hill, which is still called The Last Sigh of the Moor, sat to take 
a farewell look of Granada, his eyes brimming with tears. "Well 
doth it become thee," said his mother, "to weep like a woman for 
what thou couldst not defend as a man." 

Chivalry middle ages, 455. Beginning with dissolution of the 
Western Roman Empire and ending with the discovery of America in 
1492. Europe was all this time in a state of flux, one may say. 

1340. Italy, the tragedy of Punch and Judy, so often seen in our 
shows. 

1339. Venice in terror at the time. In the dead midnight a 
splash in the waters told to-morrow a vacant chair that would never be 
filled again. 

1492. Columbus lands, St. Salvador. The greatest man that has 
ever served the cause of progress or labored in the path of science. 

152 1. Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott. 



i6i2. England. A mid-summer night's dream. The era when 
English literature, both poetry and prose, was at its highest. Shake- 
speare, also Mr. Toplady, who gave the world the most popular hymn 
of the English language, Rock of Ages. 

1620. Settlement of America. Is it nothing to give the world 
the telegraph ? Is it nothing to establish the liberty of the press ? Is 
it nothing to set up the common school ? 

1468. The first printer, Johann Guttenberg. The age of the 
witch's hammer, and all Germany and Switzerland trembled with fear. 

1632. Protestants and Romanists. Gustavus Adolphus, king of 
Sweden, and Count Wallenstein, of the Romans, a rich and distin- 
guished Bohemian officer. Thirty years war. 

1685. Louis XIV, a visible miracle; in plain English, he was a 
highway robber. 

1707. Peter the Great, of Russia, and Charles XII, of Sweden. 
"Nowhere but at Moscow will I treat with Peter." "Ah," said Peter, 
"my brother wishes to play the part of Alexander. He shall not find 
a r>arius in me." 

1775. American Revolution. Great Britain, Washington and 
Cornwallis, King George III. 

1780. Nineteenth of May candles burn in houses. The birds 
were silent; the fowls retired to roost; the day of judgment was at 
hand; so said the people. 

1783. The greatest event in American history is the acknowl- 
edgment of the independence of the United States by Great Britain. 
Think of the country for which the Indians fought ! Who can blame 
them, without a pitying eye to weep their fall or a friendly hand to 
record their struggle ? 

1812. War. England's searching American ships irritated the 
United States so much, Madison declared war. 



1813. France. Napoleon Bonaparte. His history is a thread- 
bare theme. Never has the world seen ambition so brilliantly suc- 
cessful, so frightfully reckless of human life, or so miserable in its 
tragic fall. May I ask, who was Colbert ? 

1833. November 13. Meteoric shower. 

1853. Crimean war. Turkey, Russia, Britain, France. Chief 
cause Russian expansion. 

1847. Mexico and United States, President Polk, General Taylor, 
General Scott, President Paredes, General Santa Anna and General 
Landers. 

1861. American Rebellion. North and South. Lincoln and 
Grant, Davis and Lee. 

1870. French and German war. Napoleon and King William. 

1898. Spanish- American war. President William McKinley, 
Queen Regent Marie Christina. 

MDCCCLXXXXVI. Electric dynamo. 

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; 
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not 
perish from the earth. 

In Africa, a quarter of the world, 
Men's skins are black; their hair is crisp and curled. 
And somewhere there unknown to public view, 
A mighty city lies, called Timbuctoo. 

Our country, and our mountains, of America, monsters and mighty 
art thou; you will stand here for all time to come, and say empires 
have come and passed away, worn out by the friction of time, and 
fallen beneath the accumulated weight of ages, but my greatness will 
remain until the angel shall come, and, standing on tip toe, shall lift 
his arm and say time shall be no more, when all pass into the great 
kingdom of eternitj 7 . 

MDCCCCIII. SAMUEL STEWART. 



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